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Summary

The summer school was a good mixture between theory and praxis. Beside an overview on term "digital edition" and methodologies how to put in practice, it provided practical tutorials on technologies for scientists to elaborate an digital edition, based on concepts of print versions. The focus was set on critical editions of text corpora, including various apparatuses and footnotes. Participants were mainly from universities/faculties and scientific organisations, with heterogeneous projects. (e.g. mediaval manuscripts, letters, "urkunden", "Kirchenbücher" etc.)

Interesting aspects for the "how-to":

keep it simple

define methodology (institutional backing? ressources? time? what kind of material? what is the aim of the editor, what are the expectations of users, how can they meet?)

What are the final deliverables? (online only? static or dynamic html? print version of complete or part of digital edition?)

Versioning Machine (VMVirtual Machine)xml can be edited by whatever editor, VMVirtual Machine deals with display and comparison. Rules defined by VMVirtual Machine have to be adhered to. For each version, "glossen" can be included)

Anastasia by Peter Robinsonxml can be edited by whatever editor, rules/procedures for display and layout have to be self defined. highly configurable, web-based. toolset (e.g.anastasia framework plus tool "collate" for digital edition)

For supporting the submission of the material

EPPT (Edition Production and Presentation) includes x-tagger for freely defined tags, defined in dtd. desk-top client, open source.